2022
Genome-wide association study in individuals of European and African ancestry and multi-trait analysis of opioid use disorder identifies 19 independent genome-wide significant risk loci
Deak JD, Zhou H, Galimberti M, Levey DF, Wendt FR, Sanchez-Roige S, Hatoum AS, Johnson EC, Nunez YZ, Demontis D, Børglum AD, Rajagopal VM, Jennings MV, Kember RL, Justice AC, Edenberg HJ, Agrawal A, Polimanti R, Kranzler HR, Gelernter J. Genome-wide association study in individuals of European and African ancestry and multi-trait analysis of opioid use disorder identifies 19 independent genome-wide significant risk loci. Molecular Psychiatry 2022, 27: 3970-3979. PMID: 35879402, PMCID: PMC9718667, DOI: 10.1038/s41380-022-01709-1.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsGenome-wide association studiesGenome-wide significant risk lociAssociation studiesVariant associationsLarge-scale genome-wide association studiesGenetic correlationsSignificant risk lociPsychiatric Genomics ConsortiumMulti-trait analysisPolygenic risk score analysisSingle-variant associationsGWS lociGenetic architectureIndividuals of EuropeanGWS associationsRisk lociGene regionGenomics ConsortiumMillion Veteran ProgramSusceptibility lociAfrican ancestryLociRisk score analysisGenetic informativenessSNPs one
2021
Cross-ancestry genome-wide association studies identified heterogeneous loci associated with differences of allele frequency and regulome tagging between participants of European descent and other ancestry groups from the UK Biobank
De Lillo A, D'Antona S, Pathak GA, Wendt FR, De Angelis F, Fuciarelli M, Polimanti R. Cross-ancestry genome-wide association studies identified heterogeneous loci associated with differences of allele frequency and regulome tagging between participants of European descent and other ancestry groups from the UK Biobank. Human Molecular Genetics 2021, 30: 1457-1467. PMID: 33890984, PMCID: PMC8283210, DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddab114.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsGWS associationsHeterogeneous lociGenome-wide association studiesEuropean populationsAncestry-specific effectsAllele frequenciesWide significant associationsPhenome-wide analysisAncestry groupsComplex traitsLD variationPhenotypic classesAssociation studiesUK BiobankMapping variantsLociConcordant effectsCentral/South AsianAncestryWorldwide populationTraitsAsian ancestryDiscordant effectsSouth Asian ancestryEuropean descent